skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems from the abstract that they're not looking for causation between those two but what other factors are involved that can explain the correlation.
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I don't know that the public realizes what they're giving up in "consideration" for what they're receiving. I think that arguing about absolute positions on copyright is silly. Throwing out copyright is a bad idea, but what we have in the US now-- de facto eternal copyright starving out the public domain-- is at least equally as bad.
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and is it not easy to update the OS yourself? or is it one of those phones that can't be updated unless the manufacturer somehow "authorizes" the update?
"hand-wavy ... just about anything Freud said" - There's the issue: In pop science and public perception, psychology is nearly 100% Freud (but luckily, this is changing).

Public perception doesn't matter much for research in the field, but it doesn't help credibility.
Is this the same scam as the laptop one?
Where he will send you a fake Paypal email saying the money has been transferred and hope you dont check your account balance?
This made me crack up the first time I read it!

'Facebook engineers rave about Phabricator, describing it with glowing terms like "okay" and "mandatory".'
Good point. I'd say the answer is to try and obtain access to more data. Imagine if you had access to the Facebook "firehose" and could analyse every single FB message, wall post, Like and so on. I would say that Facebook is a better representative of the general population than Twitter and with time you could tune the model to provide insights into user sentiment. Would be cool to see what the userbase thinks about X brand and if that brand wants to pay in order to boost its user sentiment on FB.
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Am I misunderstanding this?

"Sustained violent video game play was significantly related to steeper increases in adolescents' trajectory of aggressive behavior over time. Moreover, greater violent video game play predicted higher levels of aggression over time, after controlling for previous levels of aggression, supporting the socialization hypothesis. In contrast, no support was found for the selection hypothesis. Nonviolent video game play also did not predict higher levels of aggressive behavior over time."

They write that they find support for the "socialization hypothesis", presumably meaning that players pick up norms from the violent games.
Redirects of all types are especially bad on mobile devices since they require a pointless new round trip, which anecdotally seems to double the amount of time it takes for a webpage to start loading.

Since Facebook and many other services do this on their mobile apps by default, I am surprised I don't hear more complaints about it. Twice through the cell tower is too long.
I wonder how many people were upset with the whole .co TLD.
There must be a heap of people who either paid lots of money to buy off domain squatters to get their desired .com / or they chose a less desirable .com address...
most of the PHP devs i know write raw PHP. they do not use a framework. one team built their own (4 years back). And NONE of them wrote tests. Actually i have never seen or heard any php dev writing and evangelizing tests

In ruby, mostly everyone i know, uses rails and mostly everyone writes some test. either TDD or after writing the code.

It is not as bad as PHP but personally even for me, i should write better rails code
I was amazed they offered him the consulting role and full retirement, although I suspect that the 'polygraph' clause might have been the real offer, lure him into that to get evidence then charge him and cancel the deal.

You can see the military mindset though. Once he identified the CIA as the enemy his mission was to use his abilities to crush them, to the point where he rejected a good deal in favour of fighting 'to the end'. Their only choice is to end it roughly, which is why it's almost always the default option.
Are you just wanting to analyse the user journeys? If so it sounds like something you could achieve with Google Analytics without having to pay for SAAS.
There is a major difference between performing profile-generated optimizations at compile-time based on sample data, and performing it at run-time based on real data. It is one pretty good way in which JITs could beat programs implemented directly in C.
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is Google current version of Hacker-News is down,
As a non-Node.js user, I'm more bewildered by how easily github issues turn into reddit threads.
Are you talking about value to your business or value in terms of reselling domains?
I know HN is full of Quora-haters but, for me, answers like this are a real treat to read and will keep me coming back to the site. IMO there is currently no other platform on the internet that could provide this sort of exchange of knowledge.
From the article this link to an IEEE Spectrum article on 25 Microchips That Shook The World is a pretty good read: http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/25-microc...

I was going to submit that but HN dupe check prevents it (it was originally submitted 1,001 days ago). Unfortunately it also appears that you can not discuss HN submissions that old, so there is no appropriate place to then discuss the other chips in that article.

Of particular interest to me is the DMD (Digital Micromirror Device). I had not really thought about how a digital projector might work, but if I had I would've said that it would be screen based. I wouldn't have guessed that the light would be projected at a microchip which would then reflect back only the pixels to be lit using incredibly small mirrors. And that this would happen so quick that the light would be sent through a gel of colour and would cycle through red, green, blue, and that the mirrors would reflect only a given colour at that moment for the pixel concerned.
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Looks good. However, nothing's going to stop me using TheSansMono[1]. I've discovered this font a while ago and have never looked back. I like the look and all the characters that might look similar have been worked on in order to be easily distiguishable, like the capital O and the number 0, the lowercase l and 1, and so on. Since it's my terminal font it's really the main font on my system and so far it's worked for everything.

[1] http://www.lucasfonts.com/fonts/thesansmono/
Are you suggesting his employer doesn't know the recipients? Hmm, if true, I wonder what sort of email that might be.

Not the type I'm interested in.
i dont believe the three prongs of the gov't really ensures that none is doing "sus" things. I think its just that judges are help up as people with integrity and societal pressure forces them to behave, where as the SEC regulators are less well known, and the average joe won't really have a clue as to how he/she is being fucked over (indirectly of course).

What you need is a incentivization system in which the players are rewarded properly for the tasks that benefit the whole. May be one way is to have the pay bonus of SEC directly related to the amount of fines/corruption/bad behaviour that exists in the corporations they regulate. I m not sure if this will work, as the real cause of the problem is that those with financial power can translate it into political power.
Yes. Precisely. It's orthogonal. Like compassion and conservatism or short-term thinking and liberalism. Honestly, I disagree that those things are at all related. I think that's the sort of thing you get in political echo chambers, but not in reality.

I meant mission more in the sense of centers intended to relieve poverty, hunger, etc, but it is a word with different meanings, so I see your take on it as well.

I do think, though, that if you think belief in religion is a matter of whether the emperor has any clothes that you're looking at it wrong. There are deeper meanings and purposes to faith that many intelligent and well-educated people choose to pursue. They aren't doing it blindly, they know what they're doing, and they have their reasons.

I'm strongly agnostic (to the point of being ridiculous about it), but I've encountered a wide enough variety of religious people to respect their views.
> Am I supposed to be mad at twitter for forcing me to use their unreliable link shortener?

Yes.

> How is this any different from the countless times twitter.com was down?

This is different because if I read a tweet cached in my client or archived somewhere I can't reach an external resource because a middleman is down.

> It's a centralized service, things happen.

The WWW is decentralized by design. Link shorteners, and reliance on them, make it obnoxiously centralized. The tweet itself should contain the full link and shorten it only on display [0] [1].

[0] https://alpha.app.net/marco/post/783814

[1] https://alpha.app.net/marco/post/783881
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relevant > http://www.military-sf.com/Killing.htm
I can't accept the premise that society simply wants "higher creative values". Just because the technology exists to make movies, for example, that feature photorealistic CGI robots throwing buildings at each other doesn't mean that such technology (and its requisite expense) _has_ to be incorporated into every movie. High production values exist, but that doesn't mean every creative product must have them. Consumers still purchase licenses for works with lower production values if the work is compelling. It may be that the factors supporting the finance of works with large creation expense are just an aberration and will disappear. I'm not arguing morality or a position on copyright-- I'm simply saying that if it becomes impossible to profit with works that cost a lot to make then nobody will make those works anymore. Technology has changed the landscape, and unless you're willing to live in a police state with strict regulations on general purpose computing and communications technology, that genie isn't getting back in the bottle.
> The dark pools do allow for large transactions without affecting the price too much, keeping some sense of order (as vacuous as that sounds).

Another way to read your statement: "The dark pools allow the inherently unstable and fragile market to appear more robust than it is". Which, I think, is a bad thing for society. Because a fragile market will break, sooner or later, and it's better if the fragility is visible so that players can actually evaluate their risks.
I spent a couple of years working for a company in a market research space. It's an interesting business of which I knew very little before I worked there. But the answer is that you could do a survey for a fraction of that cost. SurveyMonkey has the same product and so do a few others.

As an aside, google launched this about 6 months ago and pretty much has everyone in that business scared. Ultimately it all boils down to having profiles on a lot of users and selling access to them. Google's user base (and what they know about them) dwarfs what everyone else has combined. If they wanted to, with a bit of effort they could own that market in 6-12 months.
I thought the main difference wasn't age, but that macports installs it's own version of binaries that are already on the system (e.g. python or ruby).

This means that if apple changes the binary in the OS, you don't risk breaking the dependency tree.

If there's a way to do this in homebrew, please let me know! I'd like to switch over, and this is the one thing keeping me with macports.
WTF is "n"?
Although this idea isn't new, I'm glad Google is getting into this space in order to make it more competitive and cheaper to perform these types of surveys.
They have good value for personal email and projects for personal reasons as well as in situations where a link is not clicked.

Personal Reasons: Gmail starts sucking? Change email hosts, and all is mostly well with little to no interruption to your email service. Also, they can be good for personal branding.

Professional Reasons: A billboard, an ad, a business card. It looks foolish when a company is @gmail.com, for example. There are security reasons as well.

I use google apps for my personal email. If Google were to drop IMAP support or enforce terms of service that were unacceptable, I would have the option of easily pointing my MX records to another email host. If I was on @gmail.com, I would have a difficult time switching. For me, <$10/yr is more than worth it.
yes a laptop scam... he wants my email and info... should i contact a law enforcement agency?
> Generally, I would recommend to stop associating strict
> hierarchy with Germany.

I work for a French/German business, I live in The Netherlands but I'm originally British. I work daily with a team from UK, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark and France.

The German team is by far the most hierarchical. After living in The Netherlands for the last several years it really makes an impression working with Germans.

For example if there's a problem, and it's the responsibility of the manager, but the manager is away: nothing is done. No-one criticises bad management. They do what they're told. No questions.

In my experience of The Netherlands it's different: if someone makes a stupid decision, you go drink a cup of coffee with them and explain it to them. You don't hide behind organisational lines.

It could be a company thing: but I've worked with Germans in the past, and we had the same issues then (granted, this was back when I only spoke one language).

> On a side note, be careful when forming an opinion about
> Europe if your only fluent European language is English.

Good point. I'm fluent in Dutch and English. Becoming fluent in your 2nd language changes your perspective, broadens it.

For me it has stopped me making assumptions: experience first.
I've seen these kinds of things in the past. I can say first hand that I for one do not read the questions... type gibberish in text fields and select random choices in multiple choice answers. I am sure others will do the same.

I don't see how this can work. The only time I see it some-what-working is while gathering a massive (really massive) amount of submissions for a decision involving only two options. Maybe then... but even then it wouldn't be possible to determine the actual percentage of users suggesting one or the other option.
I think the root of the problem isn't that SEC can be captured - all industry regulators can be captured, if given enough funds.

The root of the problem is that the financial industry has so much money - money that may not represent real value, and thus, force ripple thru out the rest of the world when some group decides to take huge, but externalized risks. The problem is that this single industry is responsible for too much money generation. If a player in a game has too much power, the power to change the rules will eventually appear. and no amount of regulation can fix that. I m unsure what can actually fix it, other than setting laws such that money cannot be used to make money. Then, this problem will disappear (but so will the livelyhood of many people who currently depend on this).
Each engine is surrounded by a kevlar blast shield, in anticipation of exactly this kind of scenario. While there have been previous rockets with an engine-out capability (the Saturn 5 first stage demonstrated this, for example), I believe this is the first rocket explicitly designed to survive an explosive engine failure.

No doubt they should do an investigation to see if the cause of failure can be determined and corrected. It's possible that the fault may no longer be an issue; this was flying the soon-to-be-retired Merlin C engines, and the design or manufacturing flaw may not have carried over to the Merlin D engines. But what they shouldn't do is spend billions trying to make the rocket perfect, which has been the traditional approach. A few million + redundancy is much better.
Actually...

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tweet-entities

The tweet response contains the full link.
For me, the opportunity is really about learning how to develop software for a multicore future, rather than using these for processing. There may not be too many embarrassingly parallel problems around, but that doesn't mean we should avoid developing algorithms for highly scalable and even tightly coupled problems.
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This isn't really good practice, unless you revise your cookie on every page load to make sure it is still correct; e.g. restoring an ipad2 backup to an ipad3 will leave you with the wrong images for the next 10 years.

And an OLPC-style device might have different ratios if you're browsing using the e-ink display rather than the lcd.
I know that as programmers/hackers, we're supposed to never use the mouse, but the biggest thing that I've recently started to appreciate with macs is how good the drag and drop system is.

Some examples:

- If you want to open a file with a certain application, drag it to that application in the dock.

- If you want to send a url to your friend, drag the url onto the mail app.

- If you want to get a folders path in the terminal, drag the folder into the terminal window.

- If you want to move a file into a folder in finder, hover over that folder for a few seconds, and you'll see a new window spring up with the contents. You can navigate deep trees quite quickly, without needing to know where you're going at the outset (did I want to put this in Personal/ or in Vacation Photos/?)

This behavior has really spoiled me, and is probably the thing I miss the most when I need to use Windows for more than a few hours.
check http://www.amazon.com/Rails-AntiPatterns-Refactoring-Addison...

other than that,
1. write tests
2. good community. for some measure of good
This seems like a rather unjustified and wanton punishment to me. I can't see anything in his history that is worthy of such treatment. I scan around other areas of HN and see people who are blatant trolls appearing everywhere and they aren't hallbanned. Yet someone, like josephcooney, who appears to have a brain and attempts to be actively involved in moderate and reasonable discussion is axed?

Just goes to show that HN is becoming a ghetto, that's if it isn't already one.

Poor form if you ask me.
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The US government is corrupt through and through. There will be no change, on this or any other issue, except for the change that the most powerful moneyed interests want.
> It doesn't have to be 100% strict UML. It just has to get the point across.

So, not-UML?
I suppose this feature is there so that the thing takes less RAM and is less taxing on the GPU. So strike a balance and choose wisely, as you don't want four or so images killing all unfocused Safari tabs.
I have to be honest, I can't remember how much load we tried putting on cloudfront during our testing. We may have just assumed that as cf is a regular cdn and s3 is a big one of a kind data store, s3 was going to be more resilient. We did load test s3 and it scaled linearly (with some caveats).

For our use case (a single huge burst of requests) we were willing to drop all caching and pay the additional money. It was absolutely worth it (and under non-sustained load it didn't cost much).

We actually used s3 as a sort of cache in front of realtime data. So the client js was accessing objects on s3 that were being refreshed every second. It worked incredibly well where other things (like gae, who disabled our account under load) had failed us in the past.
I pitched in. There are a tonne of problems that are highly parallel in nature, but need a general purpose processor such as this. You can't just "run everything on a GPU instead" like everyone else is suggesting. Things like if statements are horrendous on GPUs. This gives you the power to scale across, without being limited to GPU architectures. It's also significantly cheaper in the long term than cloud hosting and uses significantly less power than clustering desktop PCs (which is also more expensive, and takes up more space).
What makes you think that the US Constitution is working as planned without regulatory capture?

The purpose of the Constitution is to provide for a working federal government, but to limit the scope and power of that government as much as possible. But does it seem to you that the scope of the government has actually been limited as intended?

The problem is that all three branches gain when you increase the scope and power of government. Therefore there is a small but consistent error on the side of expanding the government among all three groups. The result is a government that is far larger than anything that the Founders envisioned. Individually we may or may not think that this is a good change, but there is no question that it is not as intended by the original Constitution.

The place that you can see this most clearly is in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause. This gives Congress the power To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.

Until the 1930s, this was interpreted as written. If an act of commerce didn't involve Indian tribes, multiple states, or foreign governments, then Congress couldn't justify laws about it under the Commerce Clause. Then FDR wanted to pass the New Deal. The courts struck down key provisions. FDR threatened to appoint pliant judges until he got what he wanted. A key vote switched, FDR got the decision he wanted, and the Commerce Clause began to expand to cover any activity that might possibly, some day, affect interstate commerce. No matter how tangentially.

We went from, "If it doesn't cross a boundary, Congress can't say anything" to "Even if you, your business, your employees, and most of your likely customers all exist in one state, Congress can still pass regulations about who you can hire." (Yes, I like the Civil Rights Act. I'm just saying that it would not be constitutional under the Constitution as understood by Thomas Jefferson.)

From the first strong-arming of the Supreme Court to the next decision where the Commerce Clause was not upheld to cover whatever Congress asked for it to cover took 60 years. (The Court finally hit its limit with an attempt to regulate the possession of handguns in the neighborhood of a school.) Every expansive decision increased the scope of what the President could ask for, Congress could pass, and the potential impact of the corresponding cases that the Supreme Court had to judge.
Survey pay-walls have been around for a long time and I would imagine a lot people already click through them blindly. I expect the price will eventually drop further so that you'll be able to afford enough responses to get past that margin of error.
It does these days actually, but the urls are re-written by javascript only after you click on them. Try a right click.
In Australia, depending on the case, it is usually at the judge's discretion to "award costs". Not precisely the same, but it's a risk you run as litigant.

(IANAL, TINLA).
I disagree that it isn't Facebook's problem or that you have only yourself to blame.

Facebook is aware of this problem, and it's good for their bottom line. It's not in their best interest to encourage privacy, so they don't. In fact, they actively work to encourage (or, in some cases, force) more sharing, less private behavior.

As there are serious risks, even dangers, involved in over-sharing (not just your over-sharing but your friends' over-sharing as well), I would say that Facebook has some responsibility to protect its users and inform them on the implications of playing fast and loose with privacy.
Mark Lemley's paper on the subject is my go-to: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=582602
Do you think there will be lots of challenges though? The reexamination procedure will be different.

Alas, if I understand corectly, it is still going to be expensive, even just to submit prior art against a bogus patent.

Crowdfunded re-exams?